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Aplysia morio, the Atlantic black sea hare or sooty sea hare, is a species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae, the sea hares.It lives in warm waters in the Caribbean Sea and off the south and southeastern coast of the United States, where it feeds on seaweed.
Color: dark brown to purplish black, dotted with white spots; Aplysia lineolata A. Adams & Reeve, 1850: synonym of Aplysia oculifera A. Adams & Reeve, 1850; Aplysia maculata Rang, 1828. Distribution : Western Indian Ocean; Aplysia morio (A. E. Verrill, 1901) Atlantic black sea hare, sooty sea hare Distribution: Northwest Atlantic; Length: 40 cm
Coloring is often black or a very dark brown, sometimes with a thin red border to the parapodia, foot, and tentacles. [3] Many also have mottled spots which span across their body, earning the name "mottled sea hare". Aplysia fasciata have, like most sea slugs, two oral tentacles and two more smaller rhinopores in front on their neck. Eyes are ...
"They're called Atlantic black sea hares and can grow to be a foot long," a WPTV reporter said. "There were just so many of them, I -- we couldn't even count them. ... They're black and kind of ...
Aplysia vaccaria, also known as the black sea hare and California black sea hare, is a species of extremely large sea slug, a marine, opisthobranch, gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae. [1] It is the largest sea slug species.
In Hawaii, sea hares, or kualakai, are typically cooked in an imu wrapped in ti leaves. [citation needed] Aplysia californica is a species of sea hare noteworthy for its use in studies of the neurobiology of learning and memory, due to its unusually large axons. It is especially associated with the work of Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel. [11]
Aplysiidae is the only family in the superfamily Aplysioidea, within the clade Anaspidea. [1] These animals are commonly called sea hares because, unlike most sea slugs, they are often quite large, and when they are underwater, their rounded body shape and the long rhinophores on their heads mean that their overall shape resembles that of a sitting rabbit or hare.
The large black rings are very apparent on this juvenile spotted sea hare Aplysia dactylomela taken out of water. The colour of the spotted sea hare is very variable, from pale gray to green, to dark brown. There are almost always large black rings on the mantle. The maximum recorded length is 410 mm. [4]